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Burning Down the Haus

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You are probably acquainted with this phrase:

“On a long enough timeline, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero.”


Well, you may have trouble believing this, but the same holds true for my predictions. Some of them (well, most of them) take longer to play out than I hoped, but, sooner or later, they DO transpire.

I offer this morning as Exhibit A in that respect this very fresh headline:

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